My problem was that I trusted a colourist.
If you know me at all you’ll know that I’m the kind of person who thinks a hairdresser is the person at the salon that does all the “stuff” to your hair. You know, like cutting and coloring and blow drying and in some unfortunate cases, thinking back to the 80’s, the perming. Then I went to a very swanky hairdresser and was informed that the hairdresser was the cutter, although I think he may have called himself a “stylist”. If I wanted colour I needed to talk to the colourist.
As it so happened I didn’t want colour per se but mostly I didn’t want the colour grey.
The colourist loved the “tones” of my hairs that weren’t grey and, in an act that made me really appreciate colourist integrity, told me I shouldn’t alter the colour of my hair at all. Apparently I was very lucky to be “blessed with natural highlights.” Given that grey was the predominant hue of these highlights I wasn’t that sure I agreed with him. But he was convincing and so by mistake I listened to him.
He urged me to go to the supermarket, again I was happy with his integrity, and buy a colour shampoo. He said that if I bought a shade or two lighter than my hair I would cover the greys but not alter the actual colour of my hair. Sorted.
I waited about a year and then did exactly that.
I used a filter to protect you from the orange shock (and make my skin look good) But you can see how light my hair is …..that’s NOT a trick
I chose a lovely ash blonde because that is definitely lighter than my hair. I treated the actual colouring process with scant regard because after all, all that I was doing was covering greys.
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Nobody warned me that you could lighten your hair with a colour shampoo. In fact, on the contrary, people told me that only bleach could strip away colour and result in lighter hair.
Now I have caramel hair. It is almost the same colour as my dog which looks really beautiful on dog. Not as beautiful on 45-year old woman with fair skin and freckles.
But worse. The hair along the top of my head is REALLY caramel – like some kind of cheap, dodgy balyage gone wrong. And the hair at my temples is untouched, meaning that it’s grey.
I tried to convince myself that it wasn’t too bad and in fact it wasn’t even that different, surely I was just being over critical. And then I went out and saw people that I know.
My hair is caramel verging on orange with prominent grey streaks. There is no denying it.
Nice.
At least hair grows. A a sentence I must have repeated to myself about 100 times an hour (and heard about 100 times from other people).
You can get a colour stripper that is awesome. I have used it on my hair and managed to get rid of the skanky red and bring it back to a sandy brown colour. It’s called Jo-Baz Hair Colour Remover and is only $30.
I’m in severe need of a colour at the moment. My hair is salt and pepper with red tips..not really the ombre I think people will be rushing out to get.
Is it reasonable to be petrified of a colour stripper? 🙂
With some of the people that call themselves hairdressers? Absolutely!
I’ll tweet you the pic of my before and after.
Can’t wait! xxxxx
You know my hairdresser is a cutter, colorist and stylist. I don’t let anyone touch my hair because he is a amazing. I met him originally because he was fixing someone else’s mess. His name is Reese at Joh Bailey bondi Junction 🙂 x
I go to a new hairdresser now who I love a little but I am too embarrassed to let him see me with this caramel hair! 🙂
I feel wrong to say this is such a funny post Lana because it’s obviously very painful as well. So I won’t. I once went to a swanky place who provided me with a designer, a stylist, a colourist, a service menu, and a bill that was almost as long as my Coles receipt with all the different options I’d inadvertently selected. I’ve never been back but with greys sprouting faster than I can pull them out, I was thinking of a dose of supermarket retouching. Maybe I’ll rethink. Just tell all those welll meaners with their honey blonde salon highlights that “orange is the new chestnut”
Orange is the new chestnut, orange is the new chestnut *drums new phrase into her brain* 😉 xxx
I like it Lana. Fresh for Spring.
Fresh like an orange daisy 🙂
Pop a temporary rinse over it, and wash with a brunette shampoo! Promise it’ll work!
You see I am confused already – what’s the difference between a temporary rinse and a brunette shampoo? xx
I want to see it without a filter x
Trust me you don’t xx
I’m with Yvette. C’mon, show us! xx
Back when I was young and stupid and 28, I fell for that Heather Locklear ad with the blond colour shampoo. Decided if she could be blond like that in 20 minutes so could I. The hair went pinky faded orange. No words. Unless mass hysteria is words. It’s like waxing, leave it to the professionals 🙂
Is this all just a ploy to make sure you go back to the colourist and spend twice as much money to recolour the colour? I have fair hair to start with so most of my colour adventures have ended in disaster. ‘Temporary’ colours stick like glue and take bleaching to remove; darker shades, even if put in by colourists, leave me looking like a skunk when the regrowth begins. On the plus side, being blonde does hide the greys!
Dye at home jobs never seem to do the job. I bought the most expensive one thinking it would be ‘better’ but like yours, came out an orangey shade even though I picked mid-brown to match my hair… I actually think I might just get highlights to try and blend the greys, tho’ I do pull out the ones that grow along the hairline (heaps) and along the front!
Lana, you sound exactly like me a few months ago. I was blond but with a lot of regrowth so decided to even it up a bit. Ash blond it said. So like dark blond I thought. Um no, turns out it is the lovely orange you describe. I knew after the days of Sun In that I should never be allowed to self colour again… I’m still rocking a dark colour but people have now stopped saying “Wow, you did your hair.” That is never a good comment! I like that you’ve described it as caramel rather than orange. After all we would all rather love to eat caramel than orange! I bet it doesn’t look as bad as you think but feel your pain 🙂 Hope you get your normal hair back again soon!